{"id":940,"date":"2019-04-24T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=940"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:51:25","slug":"117-out-of-the-blue-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/117-out-of-the-blue-bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"117 &#8211; Out of the Blue Bolt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/blue-bolt.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Blue Bolt #1, April 1940\" class=\"wp-image-941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/blue-bolt.png 514w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/blue-bolt-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Blue Bolt #1, April 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finishing off the list of obscure superheroes that debuted in April 1940 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Bolt\">Blue Bolt<\/a>, starring in Blue Bolt #1 (Novelty Comics).  This lightning-shooting character was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Simon\">Joe Simon<\/a> who drafted his buddy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Kirby\">Jack Kirby<\/a> to work on it with him in the second issue (May 1940).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon &amp; Kirby would, of course, later go on to create <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_America\">Captain America<\/a> for Timely \/ Marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finishing off the list of obscure superheroes that debuted in April 1940 is the Blue Bolt, starring in Blue Bolt #1 (Novelty Comics). This lightning-shooting character was created by Joe Simon who drafted his buddy Jack Kirby to work on it with him in the second issue (May 1940). Simon &amp; Kirby would, of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,159,118,161,160],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-blue-bolt","tag-captain-america","tag-jack-kirby","tag-joe-simon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}